New Delhi: The mortal remains of India's middle and long distance coach Nikolai Snesarev was on Tuesday taken to his home country Belarus, four days after he was found dead in his hostel room at the National Institute of Sports at Patiala.
The dead body was first taken to Dubai by a 'flydubai' flight from the Indira Gandhi International Airport at around noon en route to Belarus capital Minsk.
Snesarev's mortal remains, to be taken by another flight from Dubai, is expected to reach Minsk on Wednesday.
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This after the officials of the Athletics Federation of India completed the formalities to transport the coffin to Minsk.
"The coffin containing the dead body was sent from Patiala on Monday night and was received by AFI officials here. All the formalities were finished in the morning today and handed over to the concerned airlines for transportation to Minsk," an AFI official told PTI.